hampshire of the back to you in new york. >>heather: thank you, doug, from charlotte, north carolina. sticking with that team, fox news analyst karl rove weighed in on how the speech played to independent voters. listen to what he had to say. >> i don't think he got it done for them. the arena was on fire, fired up and ready to go. look, everyone would walked in to the arena was passionate about president obama. everyone left passionate about him but the average american will it is there and say, wait, wait, wait a minute, you told us all of this stuff would happen and it didn't and now you telling me you need four more years before you can show progress? >>heather: now to charlotte. joining us from real clear politics is our guest. give us your analysis of how this is playing, how the speech played with independent voters? >>guest: the president earlier this week, gave himself a grade of incomplete can he has said before. his speech last night was kind of to say, you know, trust me, i'm a proven battle-tested candidate. trus